Before you condemn Baghdad officials for this horrific slaughter, let me put this into terms to which you can better relate. Depending on the figure you use for the area of Baghdad (78.8 – 283.4 sq. miles) and using the lower estimate of strays (1.25 million), that breaks down to 12-39 stray dogs per city block. Can you even imagine what it would be like to live with anything close to that number of feral dogs—hungry, with parasites, and possibly diseased—running loose around your home? This is a public health issue.

It’s considered cruel and unnatural to spay and neuter, but it’s okay to kill them???!!! How is poisoning and shooting a better alternative?

conniesays:

what insane people that would rather murder animals then get them fixed. that is islam in a nutshell murder rather then fix.

Sarahsays:

This isn’t “islam in a nutshell”.

The population boom in stray dogs is not due to people not spaying/neutering their dogs. These dogs don’t belong to anyone.

Poisoning & shooting strays isn’t an “alternative” to spaying/neutering. It is the only thing they are able to do at this point to control the stray dog population. We’re talking 12-39 stray dogs for every block.

This has become a public health issue.

JTsays:

@connie, do you have any idea how absolutely impractical it is to neuter over a million animals in a place that is a barely functioning war zone? And even if you could somehow find the resources to accomplish this task, at an unthinkable cost, you would still have over a million feral, dangerous, hungry, or sick dogs.

There are major threats to HUMAN life there. You can’t apply a western ideal to a place like Baghdad.